The realities of Extended Reality

Much of what we think we know about XR is wrong

Avi Bar-Zeev
UX Collective
Published in
9 min readJul 27, 2021

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Jaron Lanier invented Virtual Reality and coined the term at VPL in 1987. Virtual worlds require high-resolution 3D graphics and low latency to feel immersed, present and co-present with others.

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XR Pioneer (30+ years), started/helped projects at Microsoft (HoloLens), Apple, Amazon, Keyhole (Google Earth), Linden Lab (Second Life), Disney (VR), XR Guild